Encyclopedia of Asian-American Literature

Born in Karachi, Pakistan, Sidhwa suffered from polio when she was a child. After receiving her B.A. from Kinnaird College for W ...

lowest-level Korean language class at Chosun Uni- versity and is treated as an outcast by her fellow Korean-American classmates. ...

boy, name their fourth daughter “Boy” and raise her as a son. With humor, the play explores how time and place affect the ways i ...

more complicated since the narrator is growing up at a time when the general public and media are telling her to fear or hate ev ...

United States in the 1920s and has been translated into seven languages, Etsu Sugimoto was born to a prestigious samurai family ...

baggy monstrousness of most Victorian novels in its prodigious cast of characters, epic proportions, and historical sweep. The b ...

bourgeoisie that is less pretentious, more salt-of- the-earth, but still buoyed by family connections. Rajender Kaur Suleri Good ...

Rahman, Shazia. “Orientalism, Deconstruction, and Relationality: Sara Suleri’s Meatless Days,” Litera- ture Interpretation Theor ...

his writing overtook his academic interest in sci- ence. Moving West, Sze graduated as a member of Phi Beta Kappa from the Unive ...

Are the Leaves of an Onion”). A seemingly ran- dom set of images from nature, Asian writing, and quantum physics (as in “The Str ...

Bibliography Amato, Jean. “Mai-mai Sze.” Asian American Autobi- ographers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Source- book, edited b ...

279  T Takei, George (1937– ) This Japanese-American actor, community activist, and writer was born on April 20, 1937, in Los ...

gross injustice being enacted on American citizens by their own government. Years later, Takei looks back on this childhood expe ...

but simultaneously embraces it as a metaphor for her identity. Holy Prayers attracted significant popular at- tention and went t ...

nel ghosts or seeing foreboding signs in everyday occurrences. When Tan was 14, her father and older brother both died of brain ...

nine books of poetry and one memoir under the name Hilary Tham, served as editor for a variety of publications, and was also a p ...

approaches to Asian-American studies could bring more attention to her work. Her literary treatment of U.S.–Southeast Asia relat ...

the gender and racial oppressions that she has encountered. Bibliography Cheung, King-kok. “Self-Fulfilling Visions in The Woman ...

ary 2, 249). Hence, in Through the Arc of the Rain Forest, Yamashita may be attempting to widen her narrative scope to explore n ...

questioned her place in the world; as a child, she worried that she might be “exchanged for a better girl” (23) if she misbehave ...